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Why Should Organisations Audit? (print ref: Part 1, Section 2)
There are many sophisticated management tools available to organisations to help them undertake activities like Business Process Re-engineering, Continuous Performance Improvement, Balanced Scorecards and Business Excellence Modelling. One thing that all of these activities have in common is the requirement to conduct some sort of initial assessment or audit to establish a starting position or "baseline". This baseline information is then used as a reference against which improvements in performance over time can be measured.
As far as data protection is concerned, the key reasons for carrying out audit activities are:
- To assess the level of compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998
- To assess the level of compliance with the organisation's own data protection system
- To identify potential gaps and weaknesses in the data protection system
- To provide information for data protection system review
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